The Platform provides a relatively straightforward and cost effective solution for boutique managers seeking to launch UCITS funds under their own brand names, without undergoing the time and expense of creating a new SICAV.

Managers are able to launch sub-funds quickly and economically, with their own branding and distribution arrangements, and then concentrate on managing their assets and their business.

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The Independent UCITS Platform
(also the “Platform”) is the brand name of a Luxembourg domiciled SICAV
launched on 4 September 2012. The Platform was created from the
re-domiciliation of a Cayman based fund. The SICAV is a UCITS IV fund umbrella
which is subject to European Union regulation. The structure allows the
creation of sub-funds, each managed autonomously by a specialist investment
manager and branded independently (subject to relevant UCITS distribution
rules). The Platform launch was sponsored by Andbank Asset Management
Luxembourg who also acts as the Management Company. Citi International
Luxembourg provides fund administration, transfer agency, custody and
depository oversight services. At launch the Platform had one sub-fund, the
Prodigy Asia & Emerging Markets Fund, and two additional funds committed to
join the Platform within six months; the Airlie Select U.S. High Yield Fund and
the Arbiter Global Emerging Markets Fund.